Co-efficients for Next Season
I know its very early but Duncan Shine has put together a website dealing with next seasons coefficients. It obviously nowwhere near finished as most league dont finish till next spring. It gives a good a idea though of where Irish clubs will be seeded.
If Shels win the league (hopefully not :) ) they will be seeded in CLQ1 which is an improvement for them
See here . If city win the league they would start in the same round but would be unseeded.
The UEFA Cup can be found herehere.
Longford arent included but the site is going to be updated tomorrrow moring and they will be included then.
Clubs in black have already qualified. Its all based on league position so it cahnges every few days.
Two changes to Co-efficents?
I used to watch the co-efficents a closer years ago. But there appears to be two important changes.
1). There used be a 12 month delay before issuing points to a Country's table. To accomodate clubs with a season through the calender year ( i.e. Uefa couldn't tell Sweden or the Soviet Union in July, that there was a change in the table and the country in question had just lost or gained a
place for the coming September. So seasons totals in July were delayed 12 months). Has this changed?
2). Irish League, eircom League playing each other. As a direct result of the
crowd trouble at Shamrock Rovers/Linfield European Cup game at Glenmalure Park in 1984 ( it was on the Southside of Dublin for readers under 25) Irish League and LOI clubs were segregated away from each other. Are both leagues in the same draw again?
One more point, before Shels fans lecture other clubs on European comp. ( yes I mean you Mr. Higgins), they should look at their own record. I remember watching Shelbourne capitulate to AK Arkranes of Iceland 0-3 in Tolka. They lost by the same margin in the second leg also. It took Shels a while to get used to the extra effort needed.